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Comment on Which covers did it better than (or put a fresh twist on) the original? in ~music
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Comment on Which covers did it better than (or put a fresh twist on) the original? in ~music
Protected Link ParentNoooo, Simon & Garfunkel forever! I think the only covers of mainstream songs I strictly prefer to originals are Michael Buble's. Best version of Feeling Good!Noooo, Simon & Garfunkel forever!
I think the only covers of mainstream songs I strictly prefer to originals are Michael Buble's. Best version of Feeling Good!
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Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies
Protected Link Parent@Sunbutt23 any particular reason you ignored me?@Sunbutt23 any particular reason you ignored me?
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Comment on Any male victims from female abuse? in ~life.men
Protected Link ParentHoly shit, I'm just now recontextualizing the behavior of a couple of teachers I had as a kid...The scrutiny on boys was intense, the bias placed front and center
Holy shit, I'm just now recontextualizing the behavior of a couple of teachers I had as a kid...
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Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies
Protected Link ParentI'm already slated to purchase a Kobo, don't worry! The timing hasn't worked out yet (my kindle is >10 years old at this point so it's not like I bought a new one). But here it's been impossible...I'm already slated to purchase a Kobo, don't worry! The timing hasn't worked out yet (my kindle is >10 years old at this point so it's not like I bought a new one).
But here it's been impossible to avoid Amazon for physical books.
I have yet to pirate a book, ever. I'm vaguely aware of some places where that might be accomplished though.
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Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies
Protected Link ParentI pay for most things, but attempts to avoid contributing to the profits of certain horrifying companies might lead me to choose a different way sometimes. (I don't seem to be able to avoid them...I pay for most things, but attempts to avoid contributing to the profits of certain horrifying companies might lead me to choose a different way sometimes.
(I don't seem to be able to avoid them when it comes to book purchases, but that industry is uniquely fucked.)
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Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies
Protected (edited )Link ParentI'll take one, please, could come in handy. I guess I should reciprocate by offering invites to bakabt, a really good private tracker for all things anime and manga, usually focusing on best...I'll take one, please, could come in handy.
I guess I should reciprocate by offering invites to bakabt, a really good private tracker for all things anime and manga, usually focusing on best quality fansubs. But I must insist that any takers are well behaved seeders.
EDIT: 1/3 invites have been given out.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Protected Link ParentI also finished the Riven-like Neyyah just now, with my friends! It took us 22 hours. Yeah. Pretty decent game for lovers of the genre. Huge amount of work for such a large scale single...I also finished the Riven-like Neyyah just now, with my friends! It took us 22 hours.
Yeah. Pretty decent game for lovers of the genre. Huge amount of work for such a large scale single interconnected puzzle game with prerenders and FMV characters. We had fun! But I still think the lore needed an editor. Why the hell did they need a fake word to refer to Earth? Just call it Earth! You already have a hundred made up words and this is a videogame! I would also have appreciated a better fast travel system (though it's great they had fast travel at all). There was quite a bit of unnecessary travel back and forth slowing down the final portion of the game (we knew exactly where we were going by then).
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Protected Link ParentDifferent tastes I guess :) It's not like I can't see why people wouldn't like UNBEATABLE's story mode. I have friends who like the slowest, most repetitive, most time-disrespectful JRPGs on...Different tastes I guess :) It's not like I can't see why people wouldn't like UNBEATABLE's story mode. I have friends who like the slowest, most repetitive, most time-disrespectful JRPGs on earth, and those sometimes make me want to punch my brain right through my skull. I'm an impatient bastard and I need a good story flow and characters I can love; a relatively recent example is Until Then.
Thanks for the insight about the star system. UNBEATABLE does have a fair amount of jank even in Arcade mode. In one of my songs, playing Critical made me lose the full combo status and even after I did full combo again it's still not back. Gone for good I guess!
If you can full combo anything on Unbeatable you're way better at this stuff than I am. Sometimes my body can't quite keep up with my brain (though I guess that is the game), which is why I like Beat Saber. Us humans are very good at performing natural motions and choreography with our limbs; it's very low friction compared to traditional rhythm game input schemes.
Drastic Hammer is not bad! I actually quite like a good half of the songs available in a rhythm game context. Some others aren't very good rhythm songs, which makes them less fun. Am I too simple if I say I quite enjoy the final Bookend Song medley?
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Comment on I worked as a professional video editor until 2014. How much has changed since then? in ~tech
Protected Link ParentFWIW I make all my karaoke videos on kdenlive and it has worked perfectly. Better in every version, in fact - so it might crash less now! Also on Windows 10, I've had a nvidia card and changed to...FWIW I make all my karaoke videos on kdenlive and it has worked perfectly. Better in every version, in fact - so it might crash less now! Also on Windows 10, I've had a nvidia card and changed to AMD earlier this year; both work fine. Have you set up kdenlive to use hardware acceleration in the editor environment?
From my admittedly limited but non-zero knowledge, while kdenlive is powerful and works great, strictly speaking, Premiere is just a more complete tool for complex videos. I would also check out Resolve as others suggested. I've tried other free video editors in the past at a time I was having a spot of trouble with kdenlive, and it turned out kdenlive was strictly better than everything else.
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Comment on Why Portuguese is the most underestimated global language on Earth in ~humanities.languages
Protected Link ParentMight be. I don't know enough spanish to be able to tell if that's the kind of influence her pronunciation has. It sounds more to me like she's all in on her english speaker's accent!Might be. I don't know enough spanish to be able to tell if that's the kind of influence her pronunciation has. It sounds more to me like she's all in on her english speaker's accent!
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Comment on Why Portuguese is the most underestimated global language on Earth in ~humanities.languages
Protected LinkSome comments in no particular order: Of course Portugal can't grow its native speaker count through demographics. We have been a developed country for several decades, with the ageing/reduction...Some comments in no particular order:
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Of course Portugal can't grow its native speaker count through demographics. We have been a developed country for several decades, with the ageing/reduction in birth count that goes with it. Ideally we should be able to keep our population stable on our own, but it's in fact decreasing sharply (minus recent immigration) because we are so bad at managing ourselves we make life here nearly unsustainable for younger generations.
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She's surprisingly bad at pronouncing all those country names!
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Also, it felt like the video was written by someone who mostly understood the assignment (or by AI? They certainly used AI for the visuals), but she sometimes robbed it of sense by reading words incorrectly. Take the line about "obrigado": It is correct, but no, we don't pronounce it "brigade". That's how an english speaker would pronounce the written rendering of how a portuguese speaker would pronounce it...
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During Estado Novo (the 20th century far right dictatorship) in Portugal, the party line was strongly pro-colonial, and portuguese people fought and died in overseas wars to hold on to our colonies. After the 1974 revolution the pendum swung toward a strong anti-colonial sentiment, which would have percluded any efforts to spread our language as a global language overseas as very distasteful. I feel like we only started getting over that trauma in the 90s. We did harmonize (by treaty) the way portuguese is written in literature with the other portuguese speaking countries. I can't judge if the changes were good or bad, but kids are taught the new version of the language, so it is what it is.
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A better version of this video might mention the Dutch as a primary reason for the erosion of the portuguese empire before mentioning the Spanish, English or French. Not mentioning the Dutch (who, unlike the Spanish, competed directly against the Portuguese) just because their language doesn't have much of a global presence feels dishonest; in fact, I would rather like to hear an explanation of why things turned out different for them!
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Comment on Why Portuguese is the most underestimated global language on Earth in ~humanities.languages
Protected Link ParentToo late, I've already seen it! I don't have an easy time understanding Spanish, especially if spoken by a native in a casual context. Spanish speakers speak very quickly and it's difficult to...Too late, I've already seen it!
I don't have an easy time understanding Spanish, especially if spoken by a native in a casual context. Spanish speakers speak very quickly and it's difficult to parse what they're saying. It's a bit like how accents give me trouble even in English, a language that, unlike Spanish, I have used extensively.
Brazilian portuguese on the other hand gives me no trouble at all as a baseline. The trouble from Brazilian speakers are those highly specific words at the slang level, such as but not limited to indigenous-originated words or loanwords we don't have in Portugal, which I just don't know the meaning of. Since it's a vocabulary problem, being forced to use Brazilian Portuguese translations in media is infuriating because I will not be able to understand them well, but in conversation it's easy to work around the problem.
P.S.: Foreigners who conflate linguistic and cultural similarity also make asses of themselves by coming here and asking for Tapas restaurants. We don't do Tapas. You're in the wrong country. Research for five minutes before booking your vacation!
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Protected (edited )LinkI got my money's worth out of UNBEATABLE's Arcade mode. I started by clearing every song on Hard, including every new song unlocked as I went (some 70 songs? The game includes songs not from its...I got my money's worth out of UNBEATABLE's Arcade mode. I started by clearing every song on Hard, including every new song unlocked as I went (some 70 songs? The game includes songs not from its own soundtrack, for example from no straight roads). Then I set out to get S or A ranked full combo on every song; currently only 6 songs remain un-combo-ed. I also cleared several songs on Expert, did a perfect combo (S++) and cleared at least one song on every other difficulty level up to Unbeatable just to get at any pesky unlocks I was missing. Finally, I played some songs on Critical mode (a modifier). I wish I had discovered it earlier since while I was full combo'ing everything I might as well have done it on Critical mode; either way I couldn't miss or play too poorly, so they would have gone well together.
Arcade was definitely more fun than Story, and it became abundantly clear while I played it that Story didn't even teach me to play the (rhythm) game properly. Difficulty-wise, once you learn, the game isn't too bad (except for cop mode!) Even on Expert, there are plenty of levels that aren't significantly more difficult than Hard (mainly, this difficulty level seems to introduce a greater degree of required autonomy between left and right hands). Unbeatable level, on the other... hand, tends to have too great a rate of required keypresses for me to keep up with. I guess there's a reason it's not called Beatable!
For other players who understand the scoring: I'm sitting at around 6.2 stars with >91% average accuracy. I feel like the way stars are calculated discourages tackling challenging levels since you seem to lose rank for failing each time, but I didn't play for stars anyway, so for me that's fine. Currently I'm fairly satisfied with what I got from the game and might be ready to move on.
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Comment on The Jackbox Party Essentials available on Netflix in ~games
Protected LinkThey could have included Fibbage 3 just for the song!They could have included Fibbage 3 just for the song!
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Comment on Am I German or autistic? in ~health.mental
Protected LinkLooks like I'm German. At more than 50% German, I'm the second most German person here at time of writing, even though I'm not actually German. But I'll take it! I do like Kant! (Also 30% Autistic.)Looks like I'm German. At more than 50% German, I'm the second most German person here at time of writing, even though I'm not actually German. But I'll take it! I do like Kant!
(Also 30% Autistic.)
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Comment on Why Microsoft’s war on Windows’ Control Panel is taking so long in ~tech
Protected Link ParentUnfortunately there are important non-UX improvements from Windows 7 to 10, otherwise a lot more people would have happily remained in 7. Some examples: Networking that actually works. People...Unfortunately there are important non-UX improvements from Windows 7 to 10, otherwise a lot more people would have happily remained in 7. Some examples:
- Networking that actually works. People often fail to remember how many headaches Windows 7's byzantine "homegroups" and opaque settings caused on a regular basis. It was hard to understand what the OS was actually doing or why it was actually failing to connect (often, it was for no good reason).
- High performance Direct2D-based window rendering. Windows' actual windows used to be a lot slower and jankier, often ceasing to render or crashing. This is still true for certain applications using the APIs Windows was pushing around that era.
- Audio routing. I remember (hopefully correctly) that this was something they added late in the development cycle after strong user demand. Sure, they then went on to make Windows Update reset all audio settings every single time it does anything, but it's nice to have to ability to plug audio input and output devices on a per-application basis.
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Comment on Jet Lag Season 17: Taiwan Rail Rush | Trailer in ~hobbies
Protected Link ParentAlmost done with episode 4 and man, this format is such a winner. It shot straight to the top of my favorite jet lag formats (with hide and seek) with no reservations. It's very good at showing...Almost done with episode 4 and man, this format is such a winner. It shot straight to the top of my favorite jet lag formats (with hide and seek) with no reservations. It's very good at showing the country's various places, it's exciting and it's balanced. I did think Australia had enormous potential when they did it, and liked New Zealand a lot as well.
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Comment on The Eternal Life of Goldman | Gameplay trailer in ~games
Protected LinkI've been staying away from any potential spoilers, including presumably this trailer, but it's definitely on my list. It's always great to see excitement for projects like this.I've been staying away from any potential spoilers, including presumably this trailer, but it's definitely on my list. It's always great to see excitement for projects like this.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Protected Link ParentI love the positivity of your opinion! And you do a lot better than I at summarizing the game's defects. I danced around the word "pretentious" in my original comment because I typically disagree...I love the positivity of your opinion! And you do a lot better than I at summarizing the game's defects.
I danced around the word "pretentious" in my original comment because I typically disagree with the way it's used - rather, I often like it when creators are a little pretentious; it just means that they're trying for new heights. But as a big indie game buff who mostly ignores the ultra-studied AAA games, I'm also used to a steady supply of fun games. That's the big sticking point for me; yes, the game is trying something new, and clearly a lot of work was put into it, but the story mode was not fun, which is the most important thing a game needs to be - at least for most people.
As I wrote in another comment, I started going through arcade mode yesterday, and I'll definitely continue doing that. I seem to be able to get an A on Hard for most levels in one try, with some odd exceptions that make me question the way they assigned their difficulty numbers!
I can reluctantly accept that. I tend to not prefer any Disturbed covers. But I do love me a good videogame OST metal cover!